The Press., 1887-04-28

two, but couple of squirrels. Fact, we was so bundled up we couldn't scarcely turn our heads; and the day was so sorier scowly, and Mabel felt so bad-how would you like it to hear folks iabberin about things that they seen and you couIdn'tp-| that I chirruLed to Dolly and kept dark about some things that knew would make Mabel want to peek, if not more.
 I knew that Snipsic pond would keep, and I kinder hoped that when we come drivin' along back it would be a kind of smilin', good-naiured sort of day, when old Snipsic would have on it's best bib and tucker, aud the folks wouldut have to be so bundled up that they couldn't turn their heads. And it was s-but hain't got to that yet It did look nice though, and long, and sparkly. When we come along to them two little churches Methodists, both on 'em, ain't they ?-jest opposite 10 each other, at the four corners, I didu't dast to say anything about Jennie's father usin' to tei oh singin' school in one on 'cm. She might have stretched up her ueck, and kinder twisted round, aud, ha Ina who knows but she might ha' lost off that bunni' So put that away to keep, too.
 Nor didn't say nothiu' about that Charter feller's gettin' drownded down along there.
 As Jennie said, when they asked W hy she didn't talk none hardly, she sad Phe
 was "restin' her tongu..."
 | When we come along to about the south pole of Holland, wa'n'tit? We come acrvsst a real nice little corner-a real good thrifty
 lookin' corner They keep evtry thing
 right up to the chalk there, guess, and anybody could see that without twistiu' their head. Even that little school-house
 had got the start of us on style. We laugh ed, and had real ally time over the new.
 fashioned way of drspin' window curtains,
 as folks will, over fashions, you know, uli they get used to teein 'em, and they get
 the hang of 'em themselves
 But, here Ain't gittiu' littlo shel d of my story? Well, never mind You mustn't mind if do get things kinder mix , ed up. ain't used to maxim geographies. ? Let's see. l was thinkin Hbout MT. Way'p , workin' in Rockville iu mil when he was about eighteen. He worked there year.
 He didn't have no daughter then, but he has now, aud Jennie-sbe's the one. And got to thinkin', and we all got to
 talkin', about another black-eyed cousin Anna-who went to live in that nice farm. house there in Vernon, when she was mar , ried and how her father-in- law took poison by mistake, and died and how some folks t seem to live,as much in two or three years as others do if they live to be as Ol | ss Methuselah; and how she died aL d Jeff l her husband and two little children; and 3 how her little scholars Ohat Wai orce' 2 gathered round her grave, and sobbed nl
 if their hearts would break when they
 dropped in their little bouquets into the g grave, and sung their little song. Bu this was too sad too sad to think about B and to set down iu a geography.
 When we got to the minister s in Rock & vile we called, We managed tc, Some O l us thought they guessed they wisht they a never had had the pleasure of our ac
 quaintance. But they didn't say SO, no ! auy such a thing. We knew they was ac l quainted with the folks down along wher r we was bound for. We knew they used t, l. live there themselves. We thought the,
 might want to send their love.
 : He want to home, but his wife was e She was maxim quince preserves. M,
 goodness but didn't they smell nice s And ain't she just the hospitablest woman l. that ever was. You bet (ter believe it) Il She made us cup of tea, and treated u d to cranberry pie, and thinga, till Mabel l. she forget whether her eye was sore, O
 blue, or what twas.
 ,l And she told us about another minis h ter's daughter gettin' married day or tw q before, too, and how nice she looked. An l. when we went away she made us take al s umberell, and also waterproof. Every j. body was lookin' out that that famous bor q net didn't git soiled nor anything, you see d The days was short then, and we'd mad l. such nice long call at the minister's ths ,. before we got down along through Vernon s and passed that meetin' house where Nil l. Beni. Wade uster sing jest like an angel, s good many years ago, so Mir. Way says " and Vernon Depot, and gone over the rail B. road, and took in that big station house Il and travelled along through Talcottville o where the Talcotts have got up the pre- if tiest, neatest little village, with the cutes
 public library, and church, etc, that vol IT ever seen and Buckland's Oorners-what l. ever them be-and some boys that couldn' A tell whether the Hockanum river was th ,f Hockanum river or not why then, befor I. we'd done all that, and some more, it be ,. gun to get dark.
 It got about as dark as a pocket befoT 1t they got along down through Hockanum Q which is in East Hartford, and drove ul n to Cousin Eunice's house, which is in Nau e buc, which is in Glastonbury, which is thu
 town-the good old town - that Isa's anC F Jennie's mother was born m, and lived in . till they'd got a Mrs. hitched onto thei
 names,
 We didn't drive right straight into tn,
 driveway at Cousin Eunice's house
 Cousin Eunice has got blue tyes.) Isa
 she wanted to have some fun. So AaroI
 he stopped and let Isa git out. , Isa, she pulled down her veil, sll clost
 and went around to the kitchen door and
 knocked. The door open, d We heard it.
 but we didn't hear anything more for at
 much as a minute; and then-good gra
 cious If there wa'n't the jolliest laughIn'
 and "Why, Isadore Or, at Heart"-iu' that
 ever you did hear in all your life
 Euuice, she told us afterwards she said
 she stood there 0 lookin' at Isn, and tryin
 to make out who she was, till she'd about
 made up her mind it was somebody else
 somebody that she didn't want to sec, and
 wouldn't see
 But it want; and now don't you think
 am gittin' along splendid with my geog
 raphy, after all? ELLA J. BRADwAY,
 4I E- s. AMANUENsIs.
 A new discovery and one that interests ev. | cry hOuaakeanar i'd Elastic Starch It p,aLas